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Reading The Apocalypse In Bed
Tadeusz Różewicz
No Exit
by Jean-paul Sartre, Paul Bowles
Broadway Off-Broadway
Synopsis
Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in Hell.
The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit.
The irony of this Hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned.
Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of Hell.
Famously, Hell is other people.
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"Sartre’s devil lets the damned create their own hell."
— Harvard Law Record
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No Exit is a play written by Jean-paul Sartre and published by Samuel French .
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